The men’s final free skate, worth two-thirds of the overall score, takes place tonight.
Alan Weeks, 72, the BBC’s respected commentator on the sport since 1951, will retire after the World Figure Skating Championships, which end on Sunday.. Motor racing

Lanzante Motorsport, the British team who won Le Mans last year in a McLaren, have had their Porsche entry refused for this year’s 24-hour race in June.. Hockey

The dates for the semi-finals and final of the HA Cup have been changed to 27 and 28 April to allow clubs to field Great Britain players, who would have been playing in a tournament in Malaysia.. It also confirmed there will be a new preliminary round in the Uefa Cup in July. All losing teams in the qualifying round for the Champions’ League will automatically go forward to the first round of the Uefa Cup.
Leeds United have signed a new four-year shirt sponsorship deal with Packard Bell worth pounds 8m, believed to be the second most valuable in the Premiership.Tomorrow’s Hereford v Darlington Third Division fixture has been switched to Darlington as Hereford’s pitch is waterlogged Hereford will now entertain Darlington on 23 April..

Cycling

Laurent Jalabert, the world No 1, will start the Milan-San Remo classic tomorrow with a knee injury sustained in winning the Paris-Nice race a week ago. Jalabert is hoping to become the first rider to win consecutive races since his fellow Frenchman Laurent Fignon in 1989.. Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, yesterday decided that, from next season, the European Cup and Cup-Winners’ Cup finals can be decided by sudden-death extra-time. Cricket

Leicestershire have signed the 27-year-old all-rounder Carlos Remy, released by Sussex, on a one-year contract.. Ludde Ingvall of Finland has taken delivery while the New Zealander, Grant Dalton, the winner of the maxi class in the last Whitbread, will skipper an entry funded by Fehlmann’s backer, Philip Morris. However, the Frenchman Marc Pajot has lost the support of Ricard and is struggling to find the necessary funds for a demanding campaign which will take the yachts to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and the United States.Expectations that Chris Dickson would team up again with Tag Heuer have not materialised.

A Russian syndicate has appeared with some funds, but not enough, and a race organisation spokesman, Hans Bernhard, has said that the banks which have been backing the building of eight yachts are asking for more information on whether a pledge, made at London’s Boat Show in January, to see up to 10 yachts on the start line will be fulfilled.. Boxing

Tommy Morrison, the American heavyweight who tested HIV positive before a scheduled bout in Las Vegas last month and announced his retirement several days later, yesterday said he would return to the ring, possibly later this year.. A row erupted when Doyle – who acts as a consultant for the Sport for Television Group – was asked to resign just three weeks after his election because of an alleged failure to declare commercial interests.. Sailing

A crisis meeting is to be held next week in Switzerland to consider plans for the Grand Mistral round-the-world race, set up as a rival to the Whitbread and scheduled to start from Marseilles in September this year.
So far entries have been slow to materialise for a concept which involves the organiser and Whitbread veteran, Pierre Fehlmann, building a fleet of identical 80ft yachts to be chartered to competing syndicates. But counter-proposals will seek to pass votes of no confidence in the board and to demand the resignations of three directors.Doyle, the former world pursuit champion, was elected president in December after an acrimonious campaign against Ian Emmerson, the former incumbent. He has had a few days away and can sit back and decide what he wants to do,” Walsh said. “I would love to have him around for some time, to have his experience in the batting.

I think he has a lot more to offer to West Indies’ cricket.”. Cycling

British cycling’s governing body could have a Sports Council grant of more than pounds 500,000 withdrawn if they fail to resolve their leadership crisis.
Jonathan O’Neill, the Sports Council spokesman, issued the warning yesterday before a British Federation emergency national council meeting in Manchester tomorrow, when 70 delegates will be asked to endorse the board’s vote of no confidence in the president, Tony Doyle.The board want the meeting to cancel Doyle’s appointment and to elect a caretaker chairman until the next full national council meeting in November. Richardson resigned as the West Indies’ captain during the World Cup, and also said he would not be playing any further international cricket.”At the time he made the announcement he had a lot on his shoulders. The new West Indies’ captain, Courtney Walsh, who has a mild dose of influenza, has also withdrawn from the match and will not play in Tuesday’s first one-day international against the New Zealanders.The Barbadian all-rounder Ottis Gibson has been ruled out of the series because of a groin injury which restricted his appearances in the World Cup.Walsh has called on his predecessor, Richie Richardson, to rescind his decision to retire from international cricket. He incurred a fine for breaches of discipline during the 1995 tour of England and then withdrawing from the subsequent World Series in Australia.The Trinidadian left-hander has pulled out of tomorrow’s one-day friendly against New Zealand in Kingston, Jamaica, because of a niggling knee injury. Waight has trained the West Indies since 1978.Lara has been embroiled in more than one controversy over the past year, when his status as a likely future West Indies’ captain has been undermined.

Quarter-finals: Bassaleg 5 Stonyhurst 24; Hampton 19 Sedbergh 29; Wimbledon College 29 Warwick 19; Hawthorn 7 Glantaf 17. Semi-finals: Stonyhurst 21 Wimbledon College 15; Sedbergh 5 Glantaf 31 Final: Stonyhurst 29 Glantaf 10.. Cricket

The talented but temperamental world record-breaking batsman, Brian Lara, may be summoned before the West Indies Board of Control’s disciplinary committee after an altercation with the West Indies’ trainer, Dennis Waight.
Fellow passengers alleged that Waight, an Australian, and Lara were involved in a heated exchange on the plane journey from India to London after the World Cup. The 1997 event should also have a fifth competition, with the introduction of an Under-16 schools/colts tournament.ROSSLYN PARK NATIONAL SCHOOLS SEVENS: Sixth round (for Group winners): Bassaleg 22 St Olave’s 10; Hymers 0 Wimbledon College 31; John Fisher 12 Hampton 31; Silcoates 10 Hawthorn 28; Gunnersbury 0 Stonyhurst 43; Millfield 19 Warwick 26; Pocklington 12 Sedbergh 33; Glantaf 24 Mount St Mary’s 19. Also included are former Polish rugby union captain Gregory Kacala, and two Australians, Todd Brown and Jason Sands.The former Salford and Widnes winger, Adrian Hadley, is the latest player to decide on a return to rugby union. Hadley has signed to play for Sale, but unlike his fellow Welsh international John Devereux, will not maintain a parallel league career.. The sentiment was familiar, but the identity of the messenger was a considerable surprise.